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After a recent thread went from removal to trap outs, I learned some have tried them with limited success. I decided to take a poll and see if anybody wanted to hear my success stories and how they came about. In other words, do you want to know how to successfully do a trap out?

As with removals, the rules are varied, and must be adapted to the individual situation, but some basic rules do apply.

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i want to learn. i do my removals for free, so don't know if i want to get into the work of a trap out, but one never knows...... :-D

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

JP, If the interest is there, I will start another thread and maybe admin can make it a sticky. This one is just to see if it will be worthwhile.

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

I tried one for two weeks. Finally got permission to cut the house open. There were five times as many bees inside as out in my box--after 2 weeks. And before you ask, "no, there were no other entrances into he house." I would like to think it works but the time it takes and the stress on bees outside is pretty high, I would think.

I'm always interested in hearing about how other people do stuff, even if I think that trap outs are a big old pain in the kiester and not worth the time and effort unless you are getting paid big bucks to do them! :-D

I tried one for two weeks. Finally got permission to cut the house open. There were five times as many bees inside as out in my box--after 2 weeks. And before you ask, "no, there were no other entrances into he house." I would like to think it works but the time it takes and the stress on bees outside is pretty high, I would think.

The ones of read about(I've never actually done one) indicated it would take several weeks maybe even a couple months for some types. I read of one which used a queenright nuc near the one way entrance. Similar to swapping locations, the returning foragers give up and enter the nuc(or hive depending on how large the trapped hive is), that sounds pretty low stress.

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I've had several situations where a TrapOut would have been nice to do, but the people who called are always in a hurry to get rid of the bees and would not wait for the time needed to do a TrapOut. The only option in those cases were for me to refer them to others who do CutOuts, as I don't do CutOuts myself. But I don't dispare, someone someday will let me try a TrapOut I'm sure. :-D

I've read some of your posts concerning trapouts in other forums and look forward to reading them here as well. You are one of those very helpful people for us needing information and help with our beekeeping adventures.

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Iddee, I would certainly encourage you to show how to do these maneuvers, there would be many people that could benefit from this, go, go, go!!! Have a great and most wonderful day, Cindi

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I have done trap-outs in the past and don't really like to do them. But I am always willing to learn new, better ways of doing things. And to have someone as knowledgeable as you willing to teach, that would be great. So please, Iddee, let the learning begin.

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